Posted on 03/23/2016 5:57:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Ted Cruz attacked Donald Trump’s character for threatening his wife on Tuesday and blamed his opponent's attack on “a very bad night” in Utah.
“If Donald wants to get in a character fight he's better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league,” Cruz said on CNN’s “New Day,” responding to a late-night tweet from Trump warning, "Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
The attack reveals a lot about Trump's character, Cruz said. "That should be beneath Donald," he said. "The reason he's doing that is because he had a very bad night last night. He got clobbered in Utah."
Trump’s tweet — which began with “Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad" — is an apparent reference to an online ad by anti-Trump super PAC Make America Awesome, which used a photo of Trump’s wife Melania posing nude in British GQ in 2000 in an attempt to sway conservative Mormon voters.
Cruz responded via Twitter shortly after: "Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought. #classless.”
On CNN, host Chris Cuomo asked the Texas senator if engaging with Trump was a good idea.
"The tweet he was unhappy about was not even a super PAC supporting me. It is an independent group. I don’t know them,” Cruz said. "When Donald gets scared, when he gets angry, when he gets threatened ... So last night Donald threatened my wife, he went directly after my wife."
Cruz also ratcheted up his pressure on John Kasich, who fared poorly in Tuesday's contests, to get out of the race, repeatedly calling the Ohio governor a “spoiler.”
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Odd, I see alot of Cruz fans saying they would never vote for Trump. Not the other way around. I’ve already said this morning I’d vote for Jeb Bush rather than let Hillary become Commander in Chief.
That’s the inside the beltway idiots and McConnell types that Trump funds that say that.
The people out there in the trenches supporting Cruz in the various states won’t do that.
my comment stands.
The whiney hippocrit (who's candidate is proclaimed a fulfillment of both Mormon and Dominionism prophesy) wants to give derogatory names to the partisans of other candidates, and claim it is they (not their Dominionist/Mormon idol) who represents a cult.
If you don't like receiving what you dish out, don't start it. Especially not with the candidate you have.
It’s a pop culture reference. But knowing you’re an out-of-touch over-the-hill irrelevant Cruznadian stiff, we fully expect such cluelessness from a Uniparty hack like you.
He DID disclaim it, but you just don’t want to hear it.
“A Ted Cruz superPAC.”
You lie.
“Make America Awesome” is not a “Ted Cruz superPAC.” It is not affiliated with Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is not allowed, by law, to work with them.
What “Make America Awesome” did may have been despicable. But it is in no way the fault of Ted Cruz.
I wouldn’t expect anything less...or more.
Doesn’t change what I said about your crude invective or how it crosses the TOS lines here at FR.
“BTW, he knew all about the ad.”
Where your proof? Where’s the evidence?
Is Trump and his supporters gonna mock & ridicule Heidi's bouts of depression?
I know he like to mock those with disabilities.
No I get the Full Metal Jacket Reference.
That YOU think I didn’t get it shows how clueless and uninformed you are.
He’ll make what Hillary did with those 200 files she got caught with look like child’s play.
How did the ad “misrepresent” Trump’s wife? It was all out there for all the world to see!! She is no doubt proud of it or she would have denounced it herself!
Yes, the TDS is strong on this thread.
still stands.
“The whiney hippocrit”
You forgot the “e”...it’s hypocrite.
“wants to give derogatory names to the partisans of other
candidates”
Would you like me to go downthe entire smarmy laundry list of derogatory names Trump smears people with who oppose him?
You know what “projection” is?
Disclaim isn’t enough. People want DENOUNCE or CONDEMN.
Sorry...there is no mortal man I worship.
You’re projecting again.
Last night in Utah was about 1 thing ... making sure Cruz was over 50%.
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